Monday, April 16th 2007
NVIDIA 8600 and 8500 details
With the GeForce 8600 set to go on sale tomorrow, the details of the 8600 and 8500 series cards have been published by DailyTech - although they aren't 100% certain, it's certainly a more trustworthy source of information than other sites you may find. All three of the cards will be 128-bit, and the details are listed in the table below. As you can see, the specs seem to tie-in with those released by ASUS for the 8600GTS at least. These mid-range cards should start to trickle onto shelves over the coming weeks, offering DirectX 10 capabilities at a noticeably lower price than the 8800s. Obviously price will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and there will be slight changes to some clock speeds, but in general they should line up like this:
Source:
DailyTech
16 Comments on NVIDIA 8600 and 8500 details
what's with the differentiated "shader clock" spec?
Two are going to be out of my price range if they are more than about £120 each. Ohhhh yeah, power consumption will also play a significant part!
In terms of pipelines:
7800gtx vs 7600gt was 24 vs 12
6800gt vs 6600gt was 16 vs 8
It is a low end product, it is so far behind the top runners. 128/96 processors vs 32 and 384/320bit vs 128bit.
I think there will be a 8600gtx product with 64 stream processors.
With the past generation, the midrange GPU has been equal to the top end of the last generation.
7600gt/x1650xt = x850xt/6800ultra
Would have thought youd have known that.
You can work it out by using the bandwidth figure they give,
if it was 1 ghz
1 * 128 = 128Gbits/sec = 16Gbytes/sec
i know the 8800 gts supposedly needs 400 watts but according to anandtech its recommended you use 450 watts. i figure the 8600 will be in that range.... i really don't want to switch out my 430 watt coolermaster :(
I'd place my bets that ATI's mid range cards (on 65nm!) will slaughter these.